NO MAS SECRETOS SUCIOS NO MAS ENCUBRIMIENTOS ¿Cómo podemos prevenir el abuso y la violencia sexual contra niñas, niños y adolescentes? ¿Cómo escuchar a nuestras hijas y nuestros hijos? ¿Cómo podemos detectar síntomas de maltrato en ellas y ellos? ¿Cuáles son los pasos a seguir para denunciar? ¿Quiénes pueden ayudarnos en el proceso? ¿Cómo podemos empezar a curar las heridas y las cicatrices? Éstas y más preguntas se resolverón...

"Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor--raising her in isolation and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without...

"Kristin Masterwood and her boyfriend, Kane Hill, up the ante by going into her attic to re-enact scenes described in Christopher Dollanganger's diary"--Provided by publisher.

Georgie Burgess doesn't talk about the abuse that he receives from his mother and her boyfriend. Instead, he finds escape between the pages of books depicting beautiful gardens and flowers. When Georgie wins a small rosebush in a supermarket lottery, he gives it all the love and caring he's never had. Soon after, his life begins to change when child services remove him from his mother's care and look for a new, safe home for him. But all the while,...

Follows thirteen-year-old neurodivergent Maudie during an eventful summer in California with her father, where she struggles with whether to share a terrible secret about life with her mom and stepdad.

"From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark Ride"-- "Twenty-one-year-old Hardy "Hardly" Reed--good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned--is drifting through life. A minimum wage scare actor at an amusement park, he avoids unnecessary effort and unrealistic ambitions. Then one day he notices two children, around six or seven, sitting all alone on a bench. Hardly checks if they're...

Art school is Skye's ticket out; all she has to do is survive her senior year, not get too drunk at parties, and be there for her little sister, Emma. Then her mom's ex-boyfriend slithers his way back into her family. They have no idea about the dark secrets about him--and Skye never thought she would have to face him again. After years of hiding her past, she must protect her sister from the monster in their midst.-- adapted from jacket.

"When Ruby King's mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago's South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it's a devastating loss that leaves her on her own with her violent father. While she receives many condolences, her best friend, Layla, is the only one who understands how this puts Ruby in jeopardy. Their closeness is tested when Layla's father, the pastor of their church, demands...

The memoir of Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped on June 10, 1991, when she was 11 years old, and was missing--held prisoner by a registered sex offender--for over 18 years before her reappearance in 2009.